Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sprawling Kensington, Pa., centre of the U. S. hosiery industry, has seen some sad sights. It has seen its busy mills-where in the palmy days before depression and improved machinery began to displace labor, a good knitter could make $125 a week-oust workers for machines; then close themselves for lack of work...
Even so, the Senate hesitated to oust him. While the 60 Workers' & Farmers' deputies were being expelled without further fuss, a Senate committee decided to examine Senator Cachin to determine the extent of his "heresy" from patriotism. But the aged Senator, behind closed doors, refused stanchly to renounce the Communist International, so the committee had no choice but to vote unanimously to admit him no more to Luxembourg Palace...
...from coastal Seward to the biggest city in Alaska's interior, gold-mining Fairbanks (pop. 2,101). A dour, 69-year-old, spectacled, Republican Swede named Otto Frederick Ohlson is its top man. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who has jurisdiction over A. R. R., does not oust Ohlson from his $14,500 job because in eleven years Republican Ohlson has reduced its annual operating deficit from $1,000,000 to the break-even point: 1936 $17,444 loss, 1937 $172,066 loss, 1938 $76,704 profit, 1939 $19,831 loss (exclusive, of course, of any return...
...Europe be negotiated now, Mr. de Valera slipped in a request for U. S. moral support "to our efforts to have the partition of our country immediately brought to an end." But most embarrassing to the Prime Minister would be a violent attempt of the I. R. A. to oust British rule from Northern Ireland. No Government of Eire could ever cooperate with the British Gov ernment in putting down an Irish rebel lion, no matter how much it despised I. R. A.'s terroristic program, and noncooperation would lose Eire valuable British good will...